“…The different parameters, such as IBS and IBD, and specific thresholds (e.g., 0.97, 0.977, or 0.98), have been established previously to classify two individuals as identical using NGS ( Micheletti et al, 2015 ; Vanderzande et al, 2019 ; Montanari et al, 2020 ). Here, the used IBS threshold of 0.99, based on the group of known sports of ‘Springcrest’ ( Micheletti et al, 2015 ), has clearly helped to detect a large number of synonymies and homonymies, therefore, avoiding genetic errors and redundancies in the downstream analysis.…”